Country Life
YET CEIEAPER LAND.
From time to time I have given examples here of the absurdly low price of land in many parts of England. A really pitiful instance is to be added to the list. A farm with a good homestead—both house and outbuildings—has .just been sold freehold at the inclusive price of £4 10s. an acre. The money would not build the house or equip the farm with buildings.. The land is, therefore, reckoned as a minus quan- tity. It is in fact in many cases actually cheaper to buy a farm with a house than to buy the house without the farm. Apart from the present depression it is, and has long been, a curious fact in the economics of fauns that in some counties farmers themselves, though often immensely fond of their homes, do not consider their houses. They regard the rent as rent for the land and expect the house, however good, to be
thrown in—and it is. * * * *
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